It’s duty of every man to work. The life of a lazy man is of no use to himself and to others. If the man is too lazy to work, he will usually become a not useful man. Everyone, when he is young, should learn some useful work.
But it’s not enough for a man to learn some kind of work. He should put his heart and soul (精力) into his work, and not waste his free time. “Work while you work and play while you play” is as good rule for young people as old.
There is no better to help to diligence than the habit of early rising, and this, just like all other good habits, is most easily formed in youth (青年). There is an English say “Lost time never returns.” This means that everybody must be diligent, and make good use of time. One must study hard when one is young so that one can make great progress, succeed in life and become useful to one’s country. So we can say that diligence is the mother of success.The underlined word “diligence” in the third paragraph means “ ________” in Chinese.
| A．惜时 | B．勤奋 | C．失败 | D．智慧 |
If a man wants to be of useful himself and to the people, he should __________.
| A．learn some useful work |
| B．do something in his free time |
| C．put his heart and soul in everything |
| D．try his best to work without rest |
In order to learn to be diligent, it’s very important for young people to learn to ________.
| A．work while you work and play while you play |
| B．work all the time without playing |
| C．form the habit of getting up early |
| D．learn some good subjects |
One will be successful in life if he _____________ when he is young.
| A．spend more time learning |
| B．is diligent in his study |
| C．loves his school |
| D．gets up early |
Which of the following may be the best title for this passage?
| A．Lazy boy can learn to be diligent |
| B．Young people should rise early |
| C．Diligence, the mother of success |
| D．Lost time never returns |
A man came home from work late, tired, to find his 5-year-old son waiting for him at the door.
“Daddy, how much money do you make an hour?”
“If you must know, I make $20 an hour.”
“Oh,” the little boy replied, with his head down. He thought for a moment, looked up and said, “Daddy, could you lend me $10?”
The father was furious, “If you asked for the money to buy a toy or some other rubbish, then go straight to your room and think about why you are so selfish!”
The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door. After about an hour, the father calmed down, and started to think, “Maybe he really needs to buy something and he didn’t really ask for money very often.” So he went to the little boy’s room.
“Sorry! Maybe I was too hard on you just now.” said the man, “Here’s $10.”
“Oh, thank you, Daddy!” he said happily. Then, the boy took out some coins. When the father found that the boy already had money, he got angry again.
“Why do you want more money since you already have some?” the father shouted angrily.
“Because I didn’t have enough, but now I do.” The little boy replied, “Daddy, I have $20 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you.”How much money does the boy’s father make an hour? _____.
A. $10 B. $20 C. $30 In this passage, the underlined word “furious” means ______.
A. very angry B. quite happy C. too excited At first, the father refused to lend the boy any money because __.
A. he thought the boy wanted to keep the money for himself
B. he thought the boy would buy something of no use
C. the boy always borrowed money from him The boy wanted to buy ____ with twenty dollars.
A. a new book for himself
B. a nice present for his father
C. an hour of his father’s timeFrom the passage, we can infer that the boy’s father____.
A. often played with his son
B. spent little time with his son
C. often came back home early
George worked in London. He wasn't married, and usually had his lunch, and sometimes his dinner, in small restaurants. One evening he decided to go to an expensive restaurant, and when he got in, he saw a large, heavy man whom he had not seen for several years sitting by himself at a table. He thought for a few moments and then remembered the man's name. So he went up to him and said politely, "Hello, Mr Grey. How is your business?"
"Oh, it's not good at all," the large man answered.
George looked at the expensive food and wine on Mr Grey's table and was surprised. "It certainly doesn't look like what you said," he said.
"Well," Mr Grey answered sadly, "I'm afraid you are wrong. A few years ago I was doing very well, and I could afford to bring my wife to this place for dinner too."
| A．he wasn't able to do some cooking |
| B．he had no wife |
| C．he liked to do so |
| D．there were only small restaurants around |
| A．George was invited to dinner in an expensive restaurant |
| B．George invited some friends to have dinner in an expensive restaurant |
| C．George went to an expensive restaurant himself |
| D．George ate a lot of expensive food and wine |
| A．his business wasn't as good as before |
| B．his wife wasn't well at all |
| C．he hadn't seen him for some years |
| D．he was used to eating expensive food and wine |
| A．often had dinner in small restaurants |
| B．always had dinner in expensive restaurants with her husband |
| C．knew George very well |
| D．used to have dinner with her husband in the expensive restaurant |
| A．didn't believe what he said | B．was not surprised to hear that |
| C．agreed with what he said | D．was asked to have dinner with him |
Mr. Green owned a few shops and was busy with his work. Once his wife had a fall and broke her leg. She was sent to the hospital and needed someone to look after her. They had several servants, but none of them could do the job. One of his friends brought a girl to Mr. Green. She looked beautiful and strong. Mr. Green liked her at the first sight, and wanted to hire (聘用) her.
When the girl went out of the room, the friend said, “I hear she’s a little foolish. You’d better ask her some questions. If she answers them well, you can hire her.”
Mr. Green agreed and called the girl in again. He asked, “What would you be a servant for?”
“My mother is often ill,” the girl said, crying, “I have to stop studying and find work. I want to get some money to buy some medicine for her.”
“Where’s your father, then?”
“He died last year.” answered the girl.
“Oh, I’m sorry to hear that,” said Mr. Green, “And how did he die?”
“He went to London on business and had a high fever. The doctor couldn’t save him and he died in the capital.”
“How many times had your father been to London?”
“Three times.”
Mr. Green was happy. He thought that the girl was not foolish at all, but he wanted to have a last try. So he asked, “Which of the three times did your father die in London?”
The girl thought for a while and said, “I’m sorry I don’t know. When he died there, I was at school.”
| A．Canada | B．America | C．England | D．Australia |
| A．she had a hard life |
| B．she hoped Mr. Green could hire her |
| C．her mother had broken her leg |
| D．she wanted to get some money from Mr. Green |
| A．to find out why she wanted to be a servant |
| B．to test her to see if she was foolish |
| C．to ask her some difficult questions |
| D．to know where her father had gone |
| A．had done some housework |
| B．had taken care of sick people in hospital |
| C．had been to London three times |
| D．had studied in a school |
| A．was very clever |
| B．could understand all the questions well |
| C．finally worked for Mr. Green |
| D．was a bit silly |
Taking away a city’s rubbish is a big job. Every day trucks come into a city to collect it. Most rubbish is made up of things we can’t eat or use. If we kept these things, we would soon have a mountain of rubbish.
In some cities the rubbish is collected and taken outside of city to a dump. Often the city dump is placed where the ground is low or there is a big hole. The kitchen rubbish is broken into small pieces and sent into the sewage system. The sewage system takes away the used water from toilets, bathtubs and other places.
To keep mice and flies away, some earth is used to cover the newly dumped rubbish. Later, grass may be planted on the rubbish-filled land. Finally , a house or a school may be built there, and then you’d never know that this had once been an old rubbish dump.
In other cities the rubbish is burnt in special places. The fire burns everything but the metal. Sometimes the metal can be used again in factories where things are made of metal. The food parts of rubbish are put in special piles where they slowly change into something called humus, which looks like black earth. It is rich with kinds of things that feed plants and help make them grow.
| A．排污 | B．染色 | C．洗涤 | D．洗尘 |
| A．Some water is used to cover the rubbish. |
| B．Some earth can be used to cover the rubbish. |
| C．The fire burns the rubbish. |
| D．The sewage system takes away the rubbish. |
| A．to feed animals | B．to feed plants | C．to build a house | D．to make machines |
| A．By burning it off | B．By putting it in water |
| C．By throwing it away | D．By reusing and recycling it. |
A to let us know taking away rubbish is a big job.
B. to explain the need for rubbish collection
C. to introduce different ways to treat rubbish
D. to tell people to take useful things out of rubbish
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| A．Susan Weinschenk | B．Sisson | C．Meier | D．Jack Smith |
| A．Designing Effective Speech Interfaces. | B．Car and Driver |
| C．IELTS Listening. | D．Quick & Easy Meals |
| A．newspaper | B．magazine | C．passage | D．article |
| A．Chinese food | B．fast food |
| C．common herbs and spices | D．healthy and delicious food |
| A．To cook the food well | B．To invite people to dinner |
| C．To make people happy | D．To show people how to cook. |
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